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he needs to go after the shia militias in the baghdad neighborhood of cedar city. prime minister maliki told his predecessor, stay out of cedar city because the habit of militia was in some alliance with maliki. trace comes in and just does it. since this guy is going cedar city and assembly for approval. within nine months, this is actually working. there is a huge decline in sectarian violence, a huge to client and casualties of all kinds. but here is where we come in to the problem and the problem with the counterinsurgency theory generally. petraeus has said all along that the whole idea of this campaign was to create some breathing space. the iraqi factions, sunni, shia, kurds and others can get their act together. they can forge a coherent government without having to worry about getting blown up every 10 months. the problem was maliki, the leader of iraq had no interest in setting up an oil revenue sharing plan. he had no interest in bringing in a lot of these sons of iraq militants into the army, which had been promised. he had no interest in settling prope
he needs to go after the shia militias in the baghdad neighborhood of cedar city. prime minister maliki told his predecessor, stay out of cedar city because the habit of militia was in some alliance with maliki. trace comes in and just does it. since this guy is going cedar city and assembly for approval. within nine months, this is actually working. there is a huge decline in sectarian violence, a huge to client and casualties of all kinds. but here is where we come in to the problem and the...
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>> guest: we were in the city ahead of the marines, and we were just trying to soften up some of the locations for 'em. we weren't going to make it safe, but just try to make it, you know, as little as possible, add something to it. and while in the city, the marines started to approach, the people came out to show that they were supportive of the military, they weren't going to fight, and at that time there was a woman that came out, and she had something in her hands. i was watching her. i was relaying back to my chief everything that she had, and what she was doing. he informed me that it was a chinese grenade and told me i had to take the shot because she started approaching the marines. at this point i'd never killed anyone, so it was definitely made me pause, but also the fact that it's not a man, it was difficult. so we tried to radio the marines to let them handle it. i didn't want to have to be the one to take the woman's life. we couldn't raise them on the radio, so i ended up having to take the shot. but in my mind she, she was dead anyway. she was either going to kill her
>> guest: we were in the city ahead of the marines, and we were just trying to soften up some of the locations for 'em. we weren't going to make it safe, but just try to make it, you know, as little as possible, add something to it. and while in the city, the marines started to approach, the people came out to show that they were supportive of the military, they weren't going to fight, and at that time there was a woman that came out, and she had something in her hands. i was watching...
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showed the five different cities with the same prg. there is tremendous variation in total cost of care primarily around hospitals readmissions and as she lists a postacute care. we are really tried to figure out what is the best way for hospitals to work with acute care providers to reduce readmissions and to make sure that there is a much more balanced distribution of spending in the postacute care spending channels that we have. so we set sort of a set number of drgs and the ones that hospitals can choose to participate in. hospitals have the choice to choose which drgs they want to take and we have different models. some articles combined by position hospital and some combine the hospital in the acute. we are really trying to figure out what works and what doesn't work and one hypothesis is different bottles will work differently in different parts of the country given how dramatically different health care provider mix is and the difference across the country and the cost and the quality of care. we have tried to balance to foster
showed the five different cities with the same prg. there is tremendous variation in total cost of care primarily around hospitals readmissions and as she lists a postacute care. we are really tried to figure out what is the best way for hospitals to work with acute care providers to reduce readmissions and to make sure that there is a much more balanced distribution of spending in the postacute care spending channels that we have. so we set sort of a set number of drgs and the ones that...
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and in the old days you throw a rock over the wall of the city and you didn't see who you killed, and that's like nuclear weapons. if they used catapults then, today would be nuclear weapons. there's various arguments in that, and people tend to say, oh, that's just religion. people are rational. that's not quite true. religious lines in the middle east are critical. i think that once iran goes nuclear, we're going to have a severe sunni-shiite play, and it's seen as a shiite's bomb threatening the sunni dominance in the middle east. we will probably see very close to that, a pakistani nuclear presence, an extended, and pakistan nigh extended tee -- deterrents in saudi arabia. they financed the nuclear program. they have prior agreement with them that if saudi arabia calls for it, they will provide them with nuclear weapons. i doubt that pakistanis will just deliver a bomb. they would probably station elements in the region, and this is going to raise the question regarding, for the first time, second strike capability against india which would complicate the south asian complex. ease
and in the old days you throw a rock over the wall of the city and you didn't see who you killed, and that's like nuclear weapons. if they used catapults then, today would be nuclear weapons. there's various arguments in that, and people tend to say, oh, that's just religion. people are rational. that's not quite true. religious lines in the middle east are critical. i think that once iran goes nuclear, we're going to have a severe sunni-shiite play, and it's seen as a shiite's bomb threatening...
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been on the city council for ten of los angeles and now i'm a member of congress as of january of this year. >> what did the president say that resonated with you tonight? >> what i like the most about what he said when it came to immigration reform, he basically said let's get this done now. i think we have a window of opportunity of bipartisan cooperation for republicans and democrats by large agree we need to do something. let's hope we can work on the -- working on out of the senate and in our house and get something comprehensive to the president right away. >> what was the experience like for you tonight? what time can -- did you go to the chamber to get our seat? >> about an hour and a half early. i got seat close enough to aisle i was able to shake his hand and say thank you, mr. mr. president before he went to the podium to make the speech. >> do the republicans have a chance of working the immigration issue positively? >> i think they do. i looked toward the republican side of the room, we sit on one side and the other. i noticed when it was about immigration reform, a handfu
been on the city council for ten of los angeles and now i'm a member of congress as of january of this year. >> what did the president say that resonated with you tonight? >> what i like the most about what he said when it came to immigration reform, he basically said let's get this done now. i think we have a window of opportunity of bipartisan cooperation for republicans and democrats by large agree we need to do something. let's hope we can work on the -- working on out of the...
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the safest city in the united states until recently was the deadliest city in the world with 10,000 murders over six years. what is the threat to el paso is the slow pace of cross border traffic. we hear of shippers to wait nine hours to cross north and constituents may be wait five hours to cross the bridges. there are basic issues being to those who are crossing also for our economy. when i crossed this week -- last week cbp they space was coming there was no wait time but others wait for hours of we can't get me across in 10 minutes what can we do that for everyone in 10 minutes? >> is a mentioned our great times with travel public and commercial trade is a huge focus. we have increased time by 14% that reid sells a been reduced weight times in fiscal year 12 and traffic is up in every category pedestrian, commercial and personal vehicles vehicles, 12 percent over three years in using your new technology to get people into the are of friday enable planes to move quicker. you can see the pedestrian traffic increase capacity 25% wait time is down significantly. and that makes a dif
the safest city in the united states until recently was the deadliest city in the world with 10,000 murders over six years. what is the threat to el paso is the slow pace of cross border traffic. we hear of shippers to wait nine hours to cross north and constituents may be wait five hours to cross the bridges. there are basic issues being to those who are crossing also for our economy. when i crossed this week -- last week cbp they space was coming there was no wait time but others wait for...
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to citizenship to bring the estimated 11 citi undocumented immigrant in this country out ofth the shadows and into the full life of the of th american dream. an texas, we know firsthand the administration is the purpose or the ground along the border than any other time in our history be which has led to an president or success in removing dangerous h individuals from the records.ges democrats and republicans agreer to work to ensure america's safety andds security is ongoing and should be a part of any future legislative agenda. the reform you have on the table are also profamily andso pro-business. outdated visa allocations separate husbands and wives, mothers a and children and brothers and sisters for years and sometimes decades make nond sense. whileics no sense that some employers exploit employees, employers choose to throw out the rule of law and exploit employees, others companies are handcuffed by rigid employment ceilings and burdensome regulations. every year as competition increases across the globe, american companies throw up their hands and watch engineers, nurses and entr
to citizenship to bring the estimated 11 citi undocumented immigrant in this country out ofth the shadows and into the full life of the of th american dream. an texas, we know firsthand the administration is the purpose or the ground along the border than any other time in our history be which has led to an president or success in removing dangerous h individuals from the records.ges democrats and republicans agreer to work to ensure america's safety andds security is ongoing and should be a...
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michigan has universal background checks and also the most violent cities in the country. i said how does this work in michigan? everybody ignores them. if you have a law that is difficult or impossible to enforce or get people to follow, all you do is encourage people not to encourage content to the law. i have not seen the specific or puzzles me. i don't think any of us has because they haven't been released. which is not talking slogans and desires. but i find it difficult to imagine any way in which that kind of private transaction can be recovered. when you combine that with the fact the very surveys is not how criminals get their guns. the question is -- it's not me. i was guilty of the last time. [laughter] so what you're doing is putting a heavy burdened and somebody who's never done anything wrong, to exercise fundamental rights with little or no gain at the other end. so were talking a practical problem. >> the nra will not be supporting any additional measures to background checks. >> we've been urging for 20 years that those adjudicated should be included in th
michigan has universal background checks and also the most violent cities in the country. i said how does this work in michigan? everybody ignores them. if you have a law that is difficult or impossible to enforce or get people to follow, all you do is encourage people not to encourage content to the law. i have not seen the specific or puzzles me. i don't think any of us has because they haven't been released. which is not talking slogans and desires. but i find it difficult to imagine any way...
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many towns, cities have protested against the closing of mail. the post office is an important part of the town's identity and communication center. many people do not have access to the internet. according to recent study by the pew center, one in five do not use the internet. 40% of american bills do not have broadband access. senior citizens, those with less than high school education and those in low income households are the least likely to have internet access. for the 36 years before the passage of the p8 ea, the postal service is always changing from a manual process seen operation to an automated operation. to those changes come and spend the world's best postal system. to do this by identity technologies and challenges. the postal service has been well aware of the impact of the internet in developing strategies to deal with it. from 2000 through 2006 before the passage of the p8 ea, postal service reduced approximately 100,000 people, almost 80,000 came from representation. since the passage, they have reduced employees by another 86,0
many towns, cities have protested against the closing of mail. the post office is an important part of the town's identity and communication center. many people do not have access to the internet. according to recent study by the pew center, one in five do not use the internet. 40% of american bills do not have broadband access. senior citizens, those with less than high school education and those in low income households are the least likely to have internet access. for the 36 years before the...
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you move towards a freer environment of the city and move from the south to the north and that is what most people did. in the process of doing that, some of it became politicized. >> host: because they expected things to be markedly different in the north. they didn't think racism was in the north. >> guest: in the north they are not going to be murdered for taking a stand. and so in the relatively freer environment they are able to really create the conditions for the modern movement. >> host: talk about some of the people of the movement. those in sncc and those nclc and others. who were the people who'd -- was a king, was that nocco max? was that the death of medgar evers? >> guest: all of the above. all of them had different roles. one of the ways in which i try to explain this is rosa parks made martin luther king possible. martin luther king didn't make rosa parks possible. if she hadn't done what she did by refusing to give a per seat on the montgomery bus martin luther king would have simply been an articulate, well meaning baptist minister. it's because of rosa parks that we
you move towards a freer environment of the city and move from the south to the north and that is what most people did. in the process of doing that, some of it became politicized. >> host: because they expected things to be markedly different in the north. they didn't think racism was in the north. >> guest: in the north they are not going to be murdered for taking a stand. and so in the relatively freer environment they are able to really create the conditions for the modern...
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they were win the war marching up the eastern sea board destroying city after city. burned down the white house. next stop? baltimore. they came in to the cheese peek bay that model of warships as far as the eye could see, it was looking grim. mchenry was standing there. the general who was in charge of fort mchenry had a large american flag commissioned to fly in front of the fort. the admiral in charge of the british fleet was offended and said take the flag down. you have until dusk to take the flag down. if you don't take it down. we will reduce you to ashes. there was a young amateur coed on the board by francis scott king sent by president madison to obtain the realization of an american physician being held captive. he overheard the british plans. he mourned as dusk approached. he mourned for his young nation. and as the sun fell the bombardment started. bombs bursting in the missiles so much debris he strained was the flay still there? couldn't see a thing. all night long it continued. at the crack of dawn, he ran out to the banister and e looked straining hi
they were win the war marching up the eastern sea board destroying city after city. burned down the white house. next stop? baltimore. they came in to the cheese peek bay that model of warships as far as the eye could see, it was looking grim. mchenry was standing there. the general who was in charge of fort mchenry had a large american flag commissioned to fly in front of the fort. the admiral in charge of the british fleet was offended and said take the flag down. you have until dusk to take...
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for instance, the los angeles city council approved a 25 year $1.5 billion project to buy a solar power produced at the indian nation in the southern nevada desert. when it goes online in 2016, it will be the largest solar power plant on tribal land. capturing race to power over 118,000 los angeles homes. in addition to the plan itself, over 900,000 solar panels will be built on a reservation, creating more jobs in industries that tomorrow. one way to ensure projects like this is to promote fair, equitable tax policy. like all government, tribes must collect and manage their own taxes. right now, tribal governments don't have the same taxing authority by states. a flock of governments, we will continue working with federal partners to fix these policies have the economies grow and become a source of strength and her family of nations. sovereignty is how we secure communities and how they can secure nations and how we will secure future. this is our greatest challenge. a quarter of people in poverty, traced the national average and while the country as a whole struggles with an unemploym
for instance, the los angeles city council approved a 25 year $1.5 billion project to buy a solar power produced at the indian nation in the southern nevada desert. when it goes online in 2016, it will be the largest solar power plant on tribal land. capturing race to power over 118,000 los angeles homes. in addition to the plan itself, over 900,000 solar panels will be built on a reservation, creating more jobs in industries that tomorrow. one way to ensure projects like this is to promote...